[amsat-bb] ARISS SSTV--This Weekend

[Hasan al-Basri]

SSTV Sig's from ISS on 145.800 were quite loud this afternoon. SNRs we're
as great as 50 dB with either an Arrow J_Pole or an M2 Eggbeater up only 7
feet.

Rx is a Fucube Pro+ using SDR Console v3.0.5

Noise floor with 12 kHz bandwidth was -97 dBm, and signals were
consistently better than -65 dBm, peaking -44 dBm at times.

Pix Quality was excellent.

Whatever problem was there last week is not there now. Much appreciated!

73, N0AN

Hasan

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 5:17 AM <ka3hdo at gmail.com wrote:

> All,
>
>
>
> The ARISS team expects that a second SSTV transmission event will occur
> from
> ISS this weekend.
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>
> ARISS Russia team member Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, worked with the mission
> control center flight controllers to schedule in ISS crew member time to
> configure the JVC Kenwood radio to support SSTV operations in the Service
> Module.  SSTV setup is expected to start around 8:45 UTC on February 15 and
> conclude around 17:25 UTC on February 17.  These dates/times are
> expectations and may vary.
>
>
>
> The ARISS team wanted to give the community another opportunity to downlink
> the SSTV images we developed for you given the weak signal situation that
> occurred last weekend.  For clarity, these will be the same 12 images that
> were downlinked last weekend.
>
>
>
> As a reminder, you can get the latest SSTV information on the ARISS SSTV
> Blog Spot:   <http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/>
> http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/  Once received, Images can be posted and
> viewed by the public at
> <http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php>
> http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php   And you can
> receive a special SSTV ARISS Award for posting your image. See
> <https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/> https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/.  For
> simplicity, we have added a new tab for SSTV, under general contacts, on
> the
> ARISS web site  <http://www.ariss.org> www.ariss.org
>
> For those that are asking, we are still not totally clear what caused the
> issue last weekend.  We believe it may have been either a loose feedline
> cable or an antenna switch that did not fully engage. Once the crew reset
> the system and checked the cabling and switches, the radio system started
> to
> perform nominally.
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>
> Enjoy!!
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>
>
> 73,  Frank, KA3HDO
>
> ***************************************
> Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
> ISS Ham Radio Program Manager & PI
> ARISS International Chair
> AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs
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